Narrative of the call

On the Lord’s Day July 9th, our church ordained its second deacon! We are thankful to the Lord for His provision to us, as He continues to bless us with more men to serve our congregation with the service of Christ.

Below we give more details on the story of how Bruno became a deacon in our church.

Narrative of the call

Bruno started attending SPC, along with Thais, his wife, in April 2021 – when we were still meeting in the park – which seems a long time ago now. Before then, Bruno was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Butantã in Brazil. It was an encouragement to see them getting stuck into every aspect of church life very quickly and transferring their membership in September of that year – just as we started meeting in this school.

So, the Session has been keen for a number of years to establish a Diaconate at SPC and not long after Bruno became a member, church members were asked to prayerfully consider men that may be suitable to this office. This led to Evan being called to serve as a Deacon, last year, but a number of members indicated Bruno as a possible candidate too.

We met with Bruno and he was willing to explore this further with us, which included Bruno going through a number of training sessions with Falko, going through what it means to be a deacon around Christmas time up and the new year. We considered Bruno to be suitable and demonstrated a servant-heartedness, and we were glad to put him forward to be voted on.

At our recent AGM, members voted unanimously for Bruno to become a deacon – 26 yeses, and we’re delighted he joined Evan on the Diaconate on the morning of July 9th.